MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) challenged Anakpawis and Kabataan partylists to produce evidence on campaign violations by President Benigno Aquino III in campaign sorties of his Team PNoy.

“We ask Comelec not to go after small fish while turning a blind eye [against] violations made by those with big names and those close to the President,” Kabataan partylist president and nominee Teri Ridon said in a text message to INQUIRER.net Friday.

“Their effort to regulate campaigning will be useless if it exempts allies of the president and big families from such regulations,” he said.

Ridon’s statement came after the Comelec found election propaganda of Anakpawis and Kabataan in banned areas during an inspection around Manila Tuesday. Election propaganda was found on the center island along Taft Avenue while Kabataan tarpaulins and posters inside the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) campus were also reported by concerned citizens.

Ridon said that they haven’t received official notice yet from the Comelec regarding their prohibited election propaganda in PUP and along the center island of Taft Avenue.

“We haven’t received a notice from the Comelec yet,” Ridon said. “We will look into the matter. We ask our volunteers and campaigners to follow Comelec guidelines.”

“We will comply with Comelec regulations upon notice of location of alleged illegally placed posters. We need to know where and which posters to take down,” he said.

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poltergeist_fuhrer

the statement shows that COMELEC will really protect the party of PENOY…

The usual Leftist bromide!!! Go as for as they can, then blame the establishment when caught in a bad situation! Very predictable!!!

bmcillo2

LET’S BE FRANK-

By: Cecilio F. Hernandez

NOY’S
HISTORIC VISIT TO MILF

President Noynoy
Aquino flew to MILF liar to bring with him the olive leaf of peace. A historic
and giant leap to tranquility in that portion of land long elusive of peace,
the budgets for the military operations can now be channeled to rebuilding. After
which, the potential of the region can now be enhanced including tourist
attractions. If the muslims want their
land to grow, they should help maintain peace.

***

The government
should stop building more buildings unless there is unquestioned
necessity. Many times, government
subalterns simply push those not so urgent projects for commission
purposes. Many so-called road repairs
are unnecessary and better with alternatives.
There are even build and destroy schemes for profit purposes. Let us stop bleeding the people’s money for
nothing.

***

With
the start of the election season, many candidates would be mounting the stage
for bola purposes. Many talk without any sense. Watch them and
real understand what they have done or can be capable of doing with social
impact. Do not believe simply by the
names they inherit but their personal lives and what they have achieved for
others. Test them too if they have
personality disorders. More so, dig if
they have corrupt tendencies, incompetence or physical incapacities.

***

We are a
government of laws and not of idle men. Vote-buying, over-spending, pre-mature campaigning,
electioneering are again prevalent with COA, COMELEC, Civil Service Commission
static. With direct bearing, the common men are just
fed up and weak. They do not understand reports
of so-called tiger economies. All they
know is that they have food, shelter, health and education for their children. Without an honest to goodness implementation
of the so-called Fair Elections Act weeks, months or even years, the public are
perennial victims of vicious cycle of ensuing ineptitude, poverty and
corruption.

When peace and
order is elusive, Filipino lives are affected deeply and so is development. Although a hopeful people, it is hard for
them to appreciate that there is still a true government where they can live under
a system of laws with considerable peace and justice. When laws are roughly implemented, they are
even worse than anarchy.

More
particularly, half of them perennially look for food and health-care. They hardly receive mercy from men of
government who basks on the bounty of stolen money from them. Neither does society look at them with real
mercy. Nor effectively resolve to change a rotten system that had grown endemic. A few samples do no quench the thirst of
society for change.

Not
empty platforms and promises of men who run in office or motherhood statements,
public issues should be taken squarely before the electorate more particularly
by political parties. What were their
scores in implementing these public concerns?
If candidates fail, the electorate should strictly withdraw support from them for their own sake.

mekeni62

COMELEC should now investigate since they heard of the complaint. Brillantes sounds like in defense of the LP……this is ominous.

minorglob

huh? Bulag ba sila? If comelec and the whole world can see the posters, why can’t they see it? Why should they wait for a notice from comelec before they start putting down their posters? So if they don’t get a notice, they don’t know where the posters are? Please don’t vote for these party list politicians who are nothing but trapos themselves.

In the Philippines under the PNoy Administration it doesn’t matter what you can prove or what you can’t. All the matters is what PNoy allows and what PNoy wants. PNoy and his KKK and his party and exempted from such reprimands.